As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image